AUKUS slowly getting it together

[vincent]

It's good to see them making progress, slow as it might be.

www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/2024/04/18/aukus-allies-developing-undersea-capabilities-they-can-field-this-year/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dfn-dnr

[dennisw]

I bet the "Palestinians" got theirs quicker with the money our crazy lefty govt. sent them - I always said that with Albanese we had a leader as dumb a Biden.

[Ian Thomas]

The dude on the far right has his fair share of 'fruit salad'. And isn't there a song about a 'Lady in Black'?

Interesting ..

The alliance... is working now to create an artificial intelligence tool that can identify all the biological sources of sounds the P-8s pick up — everything from whales to shrimp — and eliminate those noises.

In temperate and polar waters there's a "morning chorus" of shrimp when the sun comes up, analogous to birds on land. Apparently they (the shrimp, not the birds) make a phenomenal amount of noise when scores of millions of them all start clicking their one big claw at dawn.

If for whatever reason a submarine wants to make a noise and not be detected, dawn's first light would be the time.

[vincent]

I was wondering if the Lady in Black might be somebody we know.

[vincent]

The fruit salad is mostly "I was there" ribbons. If they were rewarded for bravery or something like that, then there would be a medal.

Navy careerists consider all those ribbons impressive. Navy regs required us to wear at least our top three ribbons, so that's all I wore. I was derided for that. I don't know how I lasted for twenty years in the Navy; clearly I wasn't really meant to be there after my first six years.